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Sketches from South America. Botanical sketches. Flying crane.
Frederic Edwin Church1853, probably May
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal view containing a palm at top left; a group of trees at top center; a group of trees on a distant hill at top right; hanging twigs at bottom left; a group of trees at bottom center; and a big tree beside a house with palms behind at top of right; and a crane flying toward right at bottom right.
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- Title: Sketches from South America. Botanical sketches. Flying crane.
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853, probably May
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Graphite on gray paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, at top row left: Palm; again at top of right bottom: ('Saiba' struck out) tree / Ceiba; and again at right bottom: crane.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.5 x 28.5 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Navas Sanz de Santamaria, Pablo. The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador, April-October 1853 (Bogata, Colombia: Villegas Editores in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008), 128, b.
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